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THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN.

The following telegrams have been received by the Ptess Association :—: —

London, Apiil 23. It is now impossible to either telegraph or write to Khartoum. The position of Berber is daily becoming worse, and it is seriously menaced by the rrhels. In the neighbourhood of Korosko the massacre of the 300 refugees horn Shendy is said to be exaggetated. April 25. A Biitish expedition will relieve Gordon Pasha at Khartoum in the autumn. Aprl 26. The Government have had under consideration the joint recommendation of Sir R. E. Egertou, British Consul-Generl at Caito ; Nubar Pasha, President of the Egyptian Council of Ministers ; and Sir Evelyn Wood, commanding the Egyptian army, that a combined force of British and Egyptian troops should be despatched to the relief ofßeibtr. In its reply Government has stated that the recommendation cannot be acted on at the present, and that such expedition cannot be sent in Soudan for four months from present date.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1843, 29 April 1884, Page 2

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THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1843, 29 April 1884, Page 2

THE REBELLION IN THE SOUDAN. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1843, 29 April 1884, Page 2